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G. HUNT.

STOVE LID- No. 357,126. Patented Peb. 1, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT QEEICE.

GEORGE HUNT, or ELLENVILLE, NEw Yon-K.

STOVE-LID.

SPECIFICATION formingpartiof Letters Patent No. 357,126, dated 4Ilfebruary 1, 1887.

vAppiiauon filed March 10,1886. serial No. 194.743. (No moan.)

' .To all whom, it mayf concern:

.will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and

particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my invention, showing the lids partly open. Fig. l2 is a transverse vertical sectional view of thesanie with the lids closed. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the connecting spring, chain, and loop.

A represents the top of the stove of the class known to the trade as parlor stoves.77 The stoves are provided with inner lids, B, and outer lids,` C, which latter are usually made of some ornamental shape and serve as ornaments or urns for the stove.

The object of my invention is to obviate the necessity of having rst to remove the outer lid andthen the inner lid, in order to obtain access to the interior of the stove, by opening both lids simultaneously, and thus avoid `the annoyance of having to remove the inner lid separately. To this end I pivot the inner lid at one edge to the top of the stove, as 'at C', and provide the lid with an arm, D, which extends upwardly at a suitable angle. The

outer lid, C, is also hinged at one edge to the top of the stove, and on the under side of the said lid is secured a coiled extensile spring, F, by means oa staple or keeper, G. To the free end of the 'spring F is attached acatch or loop, H, by means of a chain, I. Thiskeeper or loop is adapted to slip over the outer end of the arm D of the inner lid, and thereby secure the lids together. When the upper lid is turned on its hinge or pivots, the lower lid isl When it is also raised, as shown in Fig. l. desired to raise the upper lid without raising `Athe lower lid,theupper lid is irst partly raised and the keeper His moved outwardly from the arm .D of the lower lid, thereby disengaging the said lower lid, when the upper lid may be opened to its full extent without raising the lower lid, as will be very readily understood. Having thus described my invention, I claiml. The combination of the lower hinged lid having the arm or catch D with the upper 

